Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A macabre tour of Hollywood’s deadly history.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.